"Brickman" (legomaniacman)
05/02/2015 at 21:33 • Filed to: Axial, wraith, rock, crawler, rc
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"Brickman" (legomaniacman)
05/02/2015 at 21:33 • Filed to: Axial, wraith, rock, crawler, rc | 4
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Finished my light bar with bright white LEDs wired and soldered by me and driven by a step up voltage converter. Saved lots of money by making my own LED string and any color I want.
Gives off a lot of light. The light bar acts like a flood light.
Wired in series.
Crawling on some rotten wood.
Washed off.
Mess of wired in my radio shack project box. Blue thing is the light bar power converter.
All done building my rock crawler. Will put some videos together :D
TheHondaBro
> Brickman
05/02/2015 at 21:42 |
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You wired your own LEDs? The ones Axial sells aren’t very good quality. The lead on one of the LEDs snapped off from the inside recently.
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Brickman
> TheHondaBro
05/02/2015 at 22:38 |
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Yep. Axials is way too expensive and the simple led controller cant handle the 5 string lights. Would of cost $30-40 to go premade. 0.90 cents for leds and few dollars for 22 gauge wire, $5 for step up converter, and $3 for a rx extension cable so I can plug the led system to a remote switch. Also needed a low power solder gun and a volt meter but didn’t add it to the cost. About $15 it costs to make the string.
I did use resistors, but put too much resistance and made the lights too dim. The set voltage by the regulator acts like a resistor by providing only the amount needed to light up the LEDs.